Read Matt 5:17-48 and tell me that you don't think humans are screwed. Because that is all that comes to my mind. Then my next thought is how TERRIBLE it will be to be separated from God. The God I know is everything good and loving. The God I know is patient and kind. My God is love. Many people wonder how a loving and compassionate God could judge people. They wonder why Hell has to exist. As a result I want you to read the quotes below which come from a Croatian theologian named Miroslav Volf who survived the Balkan Wars of the mid 1990's where horrible atrocities were committed.
"God will judge, not because God gives people what they deserve, but because some people refuse to receive what no one deserves; if evil doers experience God's terror, it will not be because they have done evil, but because they have resisted to the end the powerful lure of the open arms of the crucified Messiah."
"Should not a loving God be patient and keep luring the perpetrator into goodness? This is exactly what God does: God suffers the evildoers throughout history as God has suffered them on the cross. But how patient should God be? The Day of reckoning must come, not because God is too eager to pull the trigger, but because every day of patience in a world of violence means more violence and every postponement of vindication means letting insult accompany injury."
I am reminded of 2 Peter 3:9 "The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance."
How long though will God allow injustice?
Can man do anything good without God?
